The clock is ticking so don't delay!
For the fantasy surf nerds, our options have been slim. Fantasy Surfer shut down in 2025 after 20 years. The WSL official game has no prizes and in the carnage of the Fantasy ruin, the Surfival League has emerged.
We launched the 5th edition at the start of 2026 Season, offering huge cash prizes and fresh PANDA quivers but unfortunately (or fortunately if you are still in) 70% of the men’s league and 62% of the women’s league has been eliminated in the Australian leg.
Did you get eliminated by Ethan at Bells alongside 30% of the league?? Jack Robinson (32%) or Gabriela Bryan (35%) at Margaret River? Or did you just sit on your hands and not join at all?
Well…now is your (second) chance.
The Second Chance league is now officially open for Raglan trading, and closes in approximately 24 hours.
Same rules apply. Pick one surfer to advance past Round 2. If they advance, so do you. If they don’t, you are cut. Simple. Ruthless. Effective. Last person standing wins one G cash and a PANDA surfboard for both men’s and women’s field.
It’s $20 and guaranteed to make those early round match ups more exciting (or at least get your surf nerd group chat lit up).
Now, go sign up. Grab that ring from Frodo and get back to Mordor. Or something like that. We’re Fantasy Surf Nerds, not Fantasy Tolkien Nerds.
Sign up now, the gates are closing soon.
There is no third chance.
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Hey Taylor:
Mate you have to send out your email the moment round 2 finishes, and then open the picks for the next comp. This is why so many NO PICKs get made because you open it like 2 days before the next comp is held.
How shit does this comp look. Looking forward to Joey dropping all the Maori lingo hes been learning…
Looks like Simmers found a mull connection. Not sure how some of these ladies got on tour. Maybe it’s the wave, but damn…
WSL training sesh live right now. Just watched Gilmore unable to make a waist high peeler. Sad.
Good move, he looks like his heart isn’t in it this year
Him and Ethan will be hard pressed to win world titles
Chances of burning another 20 USD?
I guess Negs is gunna dump 260AUD into an hour of waist high chlorine.
That’s like an hour of paid parking in Aus.
You can do it, boss. Get back in there and smash them.
I wonder what the 30% who haven’t been knocked out have to say about more people coming back in. Seems like it could be against the terms.
It’s a separate league! not a re-buy-in to the original league.
come on dude, round 2 finished what 2 weeks ago, no surfival email sent out yet, that’s slack. Also, open up the next comp for picks, that’s why you get so many “no picks”.
I don’t pay for parking.
Think I’ll sink twice that and do two modes in one day.
I simply can’t get over how much he rips.
So many surfers who I simply didn’t pay attention to, as I stopped following the tour for years. And all the brazzos mostly just melded into one person for me, other than a couple of standouts such as Gabe and Pip. Yago has been around for ages.
Hip predict
Going to be a goofy advantage, expect a lot of hail mary end section launches except at Manu that is mid wave cause there’s no reason to surf beyond the elbow unless you’re going in
That rockerless sled that Italo is running will be hard to beat. You would think the less contact with the bend of the wave would be better, but Italo is an anomaly on a trampoline
Ditto the volume in Gab’s square rails and full template.
Regular foots will have to begin turns below the lip resulting in managing rail games through ribs pointing out to sea, sticky like glue
Meanwhile, Supertubes is pumping, check the cams if you don’t mind your wife seeing you cry
sound reasoning Hip.
except I think Griff will click over and over above the lip.
I don’t trust Griff
Lowers left is way better too.
You flying over on Stu’s dime?
nah- forey too weak to justify the spend.
Took Medina in the og surfival pool, managed to escape the Aussie leg intact , fingers crossed
The smartest pick. He’s an animal again. A competitive monster.
Who had your favourite style, once you understood good style, rocks?
Kelly, or was there someone else?
Curren, of course, and then Pottz in the late 80s. As a FL guy , always loved Mendia. And Parko. Hobgoods always ripped w/ panache. Long list, ha
Nice. I wanna hear your list, when we’re killing time in the Live chat. You’re right that CJ and Damo both had aesthetic styles.
Best waves I ever surfed, in the best swell of my life, Yeti was out there tearing buckets off the top. So stylish, and he was a proper, nice fella. Him and Kech were fun to hang out with and surf in mackin swell.
Nice , his rail gouges have got to be the most underrated turns in surfing … where was this epic session??
It was a mysto spot in the Caribbean. You’d remember the swell. This link is mostly dead on mobile, but maybe you can still view the slideshow on a desktop. It was a 3-part photo slideshow.
The photographer who was with the Yeti posts up photos of it every few years on his instagram page, and has been good at keeping it a secret. Every couple of years I DM him and ask him to send me his photos and he just ignores me. You’ll see his photo credit in the slideshow. All three articles are worth the trip down memory lane.
https://www.surfline.com/te…
beautiful, the pic of Mendia was still live — not sure where that spot is, but over the years in FL heard stories about places over there , never caught them just right , glad you did
I was living in VB when this one hit , surfed there and down in the OBX
This video of Tres Palmas says the 20th but it’s more likely that it’s the 18th or 19th, although the 20th still had some size left. Apparently it was 35ft up there in PR. Our max size was about 20ft, all rights. The dead, Surfline photos gave a good look at the 15ft waves. No towing, and everyone was on shortboards and stepups so no odd could really get into the largest, 20ft waves although a few tried with their stepups.
https://youtu.be/A_XW5jx47b…
I love Mendia – some of the best forehand carves I’ve ever seen.
He’s an animal, those carves are otherworldly
This event is scary. Hanneman might win it by virtue of just reaching planing speed.
Lol.
hahahah
Im back in! cmon Yago, dont make me use my fourth chance
Why does every clip of Manu Bay have Reggae? I guess it matches the slowness of the wave. I want to hear some Māori music.
Because you have to smoke weed to finish the video
I haven’t finished one yet.
You quit weed?
No but overall less of everything. Only drinking when I watch a contest. Getting my two pints for tomorrow.
Pliny the elder?
I need to ship a 4 pack, will they do that?
I tried all the Russian river beers that my local Erewhon priced store carries over the last two contests, Com recommended a couple. My ranking
1. Pliny the elder
2 Blind Pig
3 Happy Hops
4 Row Two Hill 56
Pliny is the best imo.
Try calling the most expensive Montecito rich people market and they should carry pints. I think you can get it shipped also
Thx, will check
Read Erewhon’s history…. what a start
Talk about Hippy Dippy when we were punks. I remember the restaurant too… full veggie long before it was cool. Sunset strip address too, right near the Whiskey a Go Go.
Didn’t last long but popped up in less conspicuous areas and intro’d organics to LA proper. Hollywood crowd ate it up
Interesting. Now it’s like a must see place for people visiting LA. There’s a local grocery store right down the street here that all the rich women go to and buy premade hot food because they don’t want to cook. Expensive but they have difficult to find things.
Do you remember Pat Collins “The Hip Hypnotist” next door to the Whiskey? Ended up in there once as a teenager with some girls from Malibu. Dressed in a suit and tie and sat in back, and they served us drinks until we could barely stand. She was a holdover from the 60’s and wore a mu-mu and wig. A Johnny Carson mainstay.
Call this place https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Is this the dude that’s putting out 20 minute edits of one surfer? Needs less weed more editing.
I keep seeing different surfers but all with bad reggae.
That song would be way better. Sick of watching surfing to the soundtrack of Reggae that’s made for tourists from Alabama staying in a Montego Bay resort.
Cliche
NZ has one of the deepest reggae cultures per capita.
That generic cafe “one love” reggae does my head in.
I worked at a beachside restaurant while at uni that played Bob Marley every single fucking day. Jesus I can’t stand reggae now because of it. Worst genre of music, would rather listen to Christian death metal.
With the highest reggae per capita it’s safe to now say that NZ has just dropped a little further on my travel list.
I had deadlocks in my 20’s until I visited Puerto Viejo in Costa Rica. Cringeee white boy Rastas everywhere.
Nothing says pakeha more than a white boy with dreads… glad you saw the light
it’s free AI reggae mate. Thats why he uses it.
bettin on surfer’s? we’d have better luck sinking cash into houses, horses, war games, NBA, MLB, NFL, poly candidates, family gatherings, specialized trades, life insurance, stock and hedge fund markets, etc.
and also stockpiling cash for caregivers ’cause we all are headed for the boneyard from minor injuries sustained in early, or later in life maladies. for example, look how well the senior surfers have trouble standing up and/or either on a board or their preferred Mick Fanning bottle-opening sandals. (The opener will no longer be an option~).
“Mantente rico, amigo, y la enfermera nocturna debería llegar pronto para cubrir tu atención las 24 horas. y mantener el peso comiéndote todos esos tacos callejeros que querías…”
Also, vote for Pedro…he’s a sure bet!
You’re betting on the judges not the surfers.
¡Sí! Son los que comen burrito…translation: those fat bastards eat our burritos!
You always deliver!